Re: Table inheritance surprise - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > When I do CREATE TABLE foo(LIKE bar INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS), it doesn't
> > include foreign key constraints (8.3.1).  I believe this is surprising
> > behavior, but maybe not a bug, so I'd like to propose another bit of
> > syntactic sugar, namely
> > 
> >     LIKE [INCLUDING FOREIGN KEYS]
> > 
> > which would do what it looks like it does.
> > 
> > What say?
> 
> TODO has:
> 
>         o Allow inherited tables to inherit indexes, UNIQUE constraints,
>           and primary/foreign keys

INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS is non-standard so maybe we can just make
INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS also include foreign keys.

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